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The Design, Construction And Operation Of System To Analyze The Decomposition Gases Of Af-M315e, Jonathan Alejandro Valenzuela Brok Jan 2017

The Design, Construction And Operation Of System To Analyze The Decomposition Gases Of Af-M315e, Jonathan Alejandro Valenzuela Brok

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With the current trend of aerospace organizations towards developing green monopropellant, the key priority is to eliminate the use of highly dangerous monopropellants, such as hydrazine. In that vein, one of the best candidates to replace hydrazine is a monopropellant known as AF-M315E. AF-M315E was developed by the Air Force and is currently being advanced by NASA and private corporations for use on various satellite platforms, with NASA looking to launch a test satellites part of their Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM), Raytheon providing support on the Missile Defense Agency's Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCADE) program and Department of …